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Barcelona World Race : Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat pass Cape Leeuwin
Leaders Cheminées Poujoulat have passed the second ‘Great Cape’ in the Barcelona World Race. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, around 600 miles south of the tip of south-western Australia, at 1525hrs (UTC), 37 days, 3 hours and 25 minutes after setting sail from (...) -
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Barcelona World Race : Alex Thomson & Pepe Ribes have broken their mast
Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes, skippers of the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, which was leading the Barcelona World Race, this evening lost their mast overboard at 21.02 GMT. The yacht was reaching in moderate conditions when there is reported to have been a rigging failure and the mast fell overboard and (...) -
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Barcelona World Race : Record to the equator for Alex Thomson & Pepe Ribes
Lead by Hugo Boss at 0150hrs UTC this Monday morning, four IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60s of the Barcelona World Race fleet are now racing south in the Southern Hemisphere after crossing the equator in relatively quick succession. -
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Barcelona World Race : Alex Thomson & Pepe Ribes break Barcelona-Gibraltar record
Alex Thomson (GBR) and Pepe Ribes (ESP) on Hugo Boss have passed Gibraltar, crossing the Longitude 5°37W at 18H50 (CET). They have set a new record Record #sailingrecord time for the Barcelona to Gibraltar course of 538 nautical miles of 2 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes. -
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Meiklejohn and Verbraak secured 7th place overall
Gritty, hard battling Andy Meiklejohn (NZL) and Wouter Verbraak (NED) on Hugo Boss crossed the finish line during the very early hours of a breezy Barcelona night, breaking the line off the W Hotel at 00 49 23 hrs local time (22 49 23hrs UTC Thursday ) to secure seventh place overall from the field of 14 duos which started the Barcelona World (...) -
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Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella take 6th
Unstoppable, unshakable duo Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella sailed into the record Record #sailingrecord books this morning when their Owen Clarke designed IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Open 60 GAES Centros Auditivos broke the finish line of the Barcelona World Race in sixth place, stopping the clock at 07.17.18hrs UTC for an elapsed time of 102 (...) -
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Ryan Breymaier : "a very interesting experience"
After 100 days, three hours, 13 minutes and 25 seconds at sea, Ryan Breymaier (Annapolis, Md./Washington, D.C.) – the lone American in the Barcelona World Race – stands on solid ground after finishing the race on Sunday, April 10. Now, 30 pounds lighter, he reflects back on how far he has come since the start of the race on (...) -
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Pachi Rivero y Toño Piris complete the podium
Ghosting across the windless finish line in the bright morning sunshine, making the final metres to complete their third placed by sheer willpower and motivation, Pachi Rivero and Toño Piris the childhood friends who met nearly 40 years ago as grommet surfers on the beaches of their native Santander, finalised the podium for this second (...) -
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Dick & Peyron win the second edition
Breaking the finish line this Monday morning at 10hrs 20mins 36 seconds (UTC) Jean-Pierre Dick (45) and Loïck Peyron (51) have won the second edition of the Barcelona World Race on Virbac-Paprec 3, completing the 25,200 miles round the world race in 93 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes and 36 seconds at an average speed Speed #speedsailing of (...) -
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de Pavant : “Our round-the-world ends at the far end of the world”
After arriving in Ushuaia on Wednesday evening Kito de Pavant and Sébastien Audigane and their team completed the full assessment of Groupe Bel’s keel damage The appendage itself and surrounding areas inside the hull are reported to be too damaged to allow any safe chance to repair them on site and resume (...)
Course autour du monde en double au départ de Barcelone sur des monocoques de 60 pieds jauge IMOCA
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